Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Since it's been so stinking cold here in Denver, I've spent the last two weeks of free time huddled up in my office building some PBL tank car kits. One is a narrow frame tank car kit and the other is a "Gramps" frameless tank kit. I think the frameless tank kit took longer since all of the piping is exposed, there's no place to hide anything. They're not terribly difficult to build, they just take some time. The most important step is to sand the parting lines on the top. I usually finish by wet sanding the joint. Eventually I'll get around to painting them.
I bought the Gramps tank kit from my late, good friend Robert Sander's estate. There were quite a few parts missing so I ended up scavenging parts from another Gramps kit that I have. I'll have PBL send some replacment parts. PBL is supposed to do a run of these cars in the near future.

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On this blog, I'll be showing the progress as I build my Sn3 model railroad layout based on the Denver and Rio Grande Western in Colorado in the early 1940's. The move to a different house means a new start in a new, bigger layout room. Thanks for looking and please feel free to follow along!